A Love Affair

Some people are absolutely in love with fossil fuels and hate clean water/air laws.  However, what I really don't understand is why some people want our cities to look like this and our rivers to be like this.  Both of those links are of China.  China is rapidly growing (good), very prominent in manufacturing (good), and uses a lot of fossil fuels (good?).  Air pollution and water scarcity (the lack of clean water) are huge problems.  I like fossil fuels as much as the next guy (my ownership of COP), but come on...